Re: [gentoo-user] Installing BTRFS on MBR with OpenRC

2015-08-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 14 August 2015 09:54:33 I wrote: On Friday 07 August 2015 09:49:24 I wrote: I'll let you know when I've finished building the VM and tried to boot it. Thanks for your help. I have now followed Rich's procedure to build the VM, and it does boot - once! After that, on every

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing BTRFS on MBR with OpenRC

2015-08-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 07 August 2015 08:18:40 Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: Yes, I remember about your rescue ISO. I may do the same once I work out how to incorporate my own customisations into it. Maybe that should be the first thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing BTRFS on MBR with OpenRC

2015-08-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 07 August 2015 09:49:24 I wrote: I'll let you know when I've finished building the VM and tried to boot it. Thanks for your help. I have now followed Rich's procedure to build the VM, and it does boot - once! After that, on every boot it complains failed to read the system array and

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing BTRFS on MBR with OpenRC

2015-08-14 Thread Jeremi Piotrowski
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Peter Humphrey wrote: I have now followed Rich's procedure to build the VM, and it does boot - once! After that, on every boot it complains failed to read the system array and Any idea what you did between the first boot and the second one? An internet search

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing BTRFS on MBR with OpenRC

2015-08-14 Thread James
Peter Humphrey peter at prh.myzen.co.uk writes: I have now followed Rich's procedure to build the VM, and it does boot - once! After that, on every boot it complains failed to read the system array and I'm dropped into a dracut repair shell. Then btrfs device scan exit allows the boot

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing BTRFS on MBR with OpenRC

2015-08-14 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: Adding rootdelay=30 to the kernel command line fixed it. Netconsole can be added to your kernel or as a module. It greatly helps to debug the boot processes. Maybe some gentoo folks are using it as such? Here is an Arch linux setup page for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing BTRFS on MBR with OpenRC

2015-08-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 14 August 2015 16:46:47 James wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: Adding rootdelay=30 to the kernel command line fixed it. Doesn't help in this case though. Netconsole can be added to your kernel or as a module. It greatly helps to debug the boot processes. Maybe some

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing BTRFS on MBR with OpenRC

2015-08-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 14 August 2015 17:01:11 Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Peter Humphrey wrote: I have now followed Rich's procedure to build the VM, and it does boot - once! After that, on every boot it complains failed to read the system array and Any idea what you did

[gentoo-user] iptables tunneling a chrooted Linux?

2015-08-14 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi, on my Android tablet I have installed a Gentoo rootfs. I can start this by chgrooting it after Android has booted. Via xvnc I can connect from a running Android to the also running Gentoo Linux. If I set up a firewall as root (the Android is rooted) while I am in the chrooted Linux this

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing BTRFS on MBR with OpenRC

2015-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 23:54:56 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: # cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg root (hd0,1) timeout 10 Menuentry 'Gentoo Linux 4.0.5, no X { linux /boot/kernel-x86_64-4.0.5-gentoo root=/dev/sda4 softlevel=nox net.ifnames-0 initrd /boot/initramfs-4.0.5-gentoo.img } Is